Rebecka Sheffield

Rebecka Sheffield is an archivist, scholar, and policy advisor. She is a Senior Policy Advisor of the Archives of Ontario and teaches information science in American and Canadian universities.

Biography Rebecka Sheffield is a previous director of the ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives and vice-president of the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA). She has a bachelor's degree in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Saskatchewan, a master's degree in archival studies from the University of Toronto and a PhD from the University of Toronto in collaboration with the Mark S. Bonham Center for Sexual Diversity Studies.

Sheffield is a scholar in archival science. She is the author of Documenting Rebellions: A Study of Four Lesbian and Gay Archives in Queer Times, which discusses the relationship between archives and social movements within the LGBTQ2+ community. She has also worked as a public advocate about the preservation of queer cultural history in Toronto.

Intellectual contribution Rebecka Sheffield's archival contributions focuses on community archives, and historical and cultural heritage movements in LGBTQ2+ communities. The project focuses on the home as a space for identity construction while questioning the heteronormativity of such spaces.

She has also published Documenting rebellions: A Study of Four Lesbian and Gay Archives in Queer Times, which focuses on four institutions that preserve the records of queer folk.

Publications Documenting rebellions : A study of four lesbian and gay archives in queer times. Litwin Books, 2020. "Archival Optimism, or, How to Sustain a Community Archives." Community Archives, Community Spaces: Heritage, Memory and Identity. Facet Publishing, 2020. "Community Archives." Currents of Archival Thinking, 2nd Edition. 2017.: 351–376. "Take Me Away to Another World ." Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer. Toronto: CoachHouse Press, 2017. "Privacy, Context & Pride: The Management of Digital Photographs in a Queer Archives." Queers Online: LGBT Digital Practices in Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Litwin Books, 2015. "The Bedside Table Archives: Archive Intervention and Lesbian Intimate Domestic Culture." Radical History Review, n°120 (2014): 108–120.